A film crew getting shots for a Schneider's Iced Tea commercial captured a whole lot more when a police chase smashed through the closed set in Pittsburgh's West End.

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"We were luckily running a little late, so no one was actually in the streets. When we were getting set up to film, we had just put the barricades up (when) we heard sirens blaring," said Michael Capozzoli, of CAPture Production Studios.

Film crews saw a Nissan with front end damage speed through the street.

"We saw a car flying down the street on South Main Street in the West End. He goes up and we're like, 'This is going to come back toward us,'" Capozzoli said.

College student John McQuiston, who was working at the production house as an intern, was behind the camera.

"I heard he was looping back toward us, so I started running down the sidewalk to hopefully get a little more footage, and I didn't really expect him to be coming right back at me again, and he comes right down the road that I'm standing on," McQuiston said.

Then, just as a crew member put the last barricade in place, that speeding car came barreling through, smashing the wooden horse.

Crews said there were about 50 extras around the set, who were way too close to the action.

"Some of the extras are like, 'That was great, did you do that?' And I'm like, 'No,'" Capozzoli said.

Police said the man leading officers on the chase was wanted on domestic violence charges. The chase ended when the man crashed the car and ran away.